go through fire and water

Example Sentences

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For example, I asked him that when Pamina and Tamino go through fire and water there should be real danger; in most productions, it feels like a symbolic, pleasant walk.

From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2012

At week's end, with Mrs. Bernstein heartily protesting "I'd go through fire and water for that boy!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Old Zenza's eyes sparkled, while she said: "If the gracious princess should ever want any one who'd go through fire and water to serve her, she need only think of Zenza and Thomas."

From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold

At the sound of her voice so softly calling all violence was forgotten; love poured back in a flood upon him; he would go through fire and water to possess her in the end.

From The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath by Blackwood, Algernon

Tom’s a trusty fellow, and when he takes to a man he’ll go through fire and water to serve him.

From The Parson O' Dumford by Fenn, George Manville